# Jeremy Bulloch, the original Boba Fett, has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [December 18, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-bulloch-the-original-boba-fett-has-died/928306 "2020-12-18T02:40:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-bulloch-the-original-boba-fett-has-died/928306/1 "2020-12-18T02:40:18Z")
> **[Jeremy Bulloch, Boba Fett actor in original 'Star Wars' trilogy, dies at 75](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/jeremy-bulloch-boba-fett-original-star-wars-trilogy-dies-75-n1251620)** > > The venerable and popular British actor passed away after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. May he rest in peace. I wasn’t familiar with him, but am saddened that another original SW cast member has passed. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-bulloch-the-original-boba-fett-has-died/928306/2 "2020-12-18T03:38:13Z")
Damn, they’re slowly going away. Princess Leia, Artoo-Detoo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Boba Fett. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-bulloch-the-original-boba-fett-has-died/928306/3 "2020-12-18T05:17:58Z")
When I was an obsessive Star Wars fan I knew the names of all the cast, but didn’t know the faces of the masked characters. So though I knew Jeremy Bulloch was Boba Fett, I had no idea what he looked like. No IMDb or Wikipedia back in those days. I used to subscribe to ‘Star Wars Insider’ magazine, which in the 90s had an interview with Jeremy, and there I finally saw his face (and learned he also played an Imperial Officer in ESB, when the original actor missed his standby call). And that’s when I realised I already knew him from a previous role. He played a character, one of a gay couple, in the 1980s sitcom _Agony_ which I was a big fan of. > **[Agony (1979)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078559/mediaviewer/rm4218249216/)** > > Jeremy Bulloch, Peter Denyer, and Maureen Lipman in Agony (1979) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-bulloch-the-original-boba-fett-has-died/928306/4 "2020-12-18T05:37:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I used to subscribe to ‘Star Wars Insider’ magazine, which in the 90s had an interview with Jeremy, and there I finally saw his face (and learned he also played an Imperial Officer in ESB, when the original actor missed his standby call). I had only learned that relatively recently; it’s a fun appearance, as he appears as both characters in the same scene. Here’s a still of him as the officer. [https://starwarsblog.starwars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jeremy-bulloch-empire-leia.jpg](https://starwarsblog.starwars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jeremy-bulloch-empire-leia.jpg) I have an autographed photo of Bulloch as Boba Fett – years ago, my wife attended a science fiction convention where he was appearing, and had him autograph it for me. Godspeed, Mr. Bulloch. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-bulloch-the-original-boba-fett-has-died/928306/5 "2020-12-18T13:43:54Z")
Sad news. For some reason, I had learned his name relatively early, and it stuck with me. So if I ran across him in other things, I was able to recognize him by name and think, “Hey, that’s Boba Fett!” He also had a fairly prominent role as a medieval archer in the Jon Pertwee _Doctor Who_ story “The Time Warrior,” if you’d like to see him doing something more heroic. RIP